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HOWARD WEIL CONFERENCE
Giving Seismic a Whole New Image
April 2005
Forward Looking Statements
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Company Overview
• The largest global independent seismic imaging company
• Expected 2005 revenues $320-$365 million
• Provides full range of seismic imaging technologies & solutions
• Headquartered in Houston, TX
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Company Overview
I/O Products & Services - Imaging Systems Group
Land Acquisition Systems
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Streamer and Ocean Bottom Cable Acquisition Systems
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Company Overview –
I/O Products & Services - Seismic Integrated Services
Imaging and Processing Services
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Company Overview –
2004 Sources of Revenue
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• 33% Americas
• 32% CIS/Asia
• 35% Europe/Africa/Middle East
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Energy Sector Overview
• Looming supply gap
• Rising F&D costs
• Pressure to find new reserves
• Increasing capex
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Promising Trends For Seismic
• Demand for hydrocarbons is outstripping increases in supply.
• New hydrocarbon provinces appear on the brink of reopening (with the application of Western technology) – Libya, Iraq, CIS.
• Oil companies accepting the need for custom designed surveys that target specific reservoir challenges (vs. general spec shoots).
• Many of the remaining reservoir challenges require wide azimuth geometries and higher density sensor spacing (to improve resolution) as well as shear waves (to increase content).
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Seismic Activity Trends
GROWING WORLDWIDE E&P EXPENDITURES
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LAND CREW DEPLOYMENT TRENDS
Major North American Contractor
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Annual Geophone Output - I/O Sensor
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Our Strategy
• Lead the emerging 3rd wave of seismic technology
• Full Wave Adoption
• Provide full range of seismic imaging solutions
• Planning to Interpretation
• Reduce full-cycle seismic imaging costs and time
• Field Logistics require technology solutions
• Form closer, more direct relationships with oil & gas companies
• They are the ones with the problem
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Full-wave Imaging
The dawn of the next era in seismic
Technology “S-Curves” in Seismology
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Traditional Seismic is in Its Twilight
Legacy tools and approaches rooted in decades of history
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Arrays of analog geophones
• Coiled springs
• Recording uni-dimensional particle motion
• 6-128 geophones per array (mechanical noise filtering)
• Tried and true, but…
…should this be at the heart of E&P?
Connected by miles & tons of cable
• 50 tons on the average land crew
• 40% of field operational time spent on cable repair and maintenance
• HSE risks
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At the Core of Full-wave Imaging
MEMS digital sensors
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From Silicon Wafer to Field-ready Sensor
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Why Full-wave Imaging?
The benefits – Enhanced imaging
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Geophysical drivers
• Capture (and preserve) low and high frequency data
• Improve spatial resolution
• Improve vector fidelity
• Better characterize / isolate noise
• Better account for near-surface velocity anomalies
• Improve velocity modeling
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• Higher resolution images
• Accurate imaging of subsurface structures
• Enhanced utility for reservoir characterization
• Lithology
• Reservoir plumbing
• Fluid type
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Full-wave Fundamentals
The benefits – Improved field productivity and cycle time
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Operational drivers
• Capture benefits from single point recording
• Less gear, less weight
• Faster sensor “plants”
• Easier orientation
• Shorten the processing cycle
• Adaptive filtering speeds noise removal phase
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• More acquisition per crew per season
• Improved HSE performance
• Lower per survey costs
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Full Wave Adoption (2004)
• Eight worldwide contractors with VectorSeis capabilities
• Full Wave survey spending up 5x to $38 million
• 70% increase in full wave surveys performed
• 3D surveys up 4x
• 38 oil companies have acquired Full Wave surveys
• 11 of them used Full Wave repeatedly
• Estimate that 70% of surveys done by VectorSeis Systems
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Transition to Seismic Imaging Solutions Company
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Form Closer Relationships with End-Users
Apache Partnership
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“The quality of our initial I/O VectorSeis data is excellent.
Apache has invested a great deal in this seismic shoot,
and I believe the data will help us significantly.
VectorSeis has tremendous potential.”
• Steve Farris, President, CEO & COO of Apache
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The New I/O
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Investment Highlights
• I/O + GXT + Concept Systems = technology only seismic solutions company
• Customized technologies that when integrated across the value chain create significant competitive advantages
• Leadership in new generation seismic technologies to help close the supply-demand gap
• Improved seismic sector fundamentals as oil & gas companies return to the drill bit and focus on production enhancement
• Visible growth avenues with GXT and new technologies
• Strong new management team tailored to strategy
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